inspired by henry david thoreau's hut at walden pond. Translated as a tool for our time tuned to planet earth. A minimum prototype that adjusts to its environment in the sense that a tree does, ie autonomous energy, info, water+food, integrated structure, environmental systems with louvre skins that respond via sensors to temperature, wind, moisture and light.
'..THIS FRAME SO SLIGHTLY CLAD, WAS A SORT OF CRYSTALLISATION AROUND ME..'
Thoreau.

Monday, 23 June 2008

17.06.08 sun's out approx 20 degreesa bright and sunny morning after a cloudless and star filled night - i choose to sleep out on my new six meter long click-raft base. Simply in bag on a camping mattress and had a perfect nights sleep.... waking only a couple of times to observe the earths turn against the stars...... what a magic miracle we live in ..... and then to awake to the sun's warm rays and the leaves of my click-raft reaching upwards to the sky like unfurling fern fronds.. or leaves of flax or grass... my water bottle is cold and dew covered - its contents delicious, the birds are singing and i feel a great sense of freedom and calm here... ahhhhhi sense directly that i will have to find another material that lexan for the click-raft ends it's too heavy, and just doesn't feel right...all i need to do is make strong aluminium frames and cross brace with tension wires then i can choose a very light transparent membrane to stretch over these frames.

I have managed to get the first 20 click-leaves to each wall-raft up , only to discover that the levels weren't right .. what to do?Finally realised that a small detail change to the panel design could help solve this. Instead of a simple hole at the bottom for the bolt fixing, this should be a slot joint which will then enable on site ajustment vertically... and of course this means alot of undoing, and drilling and then fixing them all again - such is the nature of prototyping !

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Background

How should we dwell on planet earth? If a computer can be made for $100 (think how absurd this would have sounded 20 years ago) - then why not a building?

It is time to drag architecture kicking and screaming into being a super inexpensive enabling tool. A device that is in-tune with our fragile planet!

The CLICK-RAFT is an inexpensive fabrication architecture – inspired by Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, the citroen TPV, and lego. Click-Leaf architecture is a playful open system which utilizes the qualities of CNC cut plywood in click-leaf’s and click-beam’s to form a lattice of structure/networks assembled from standard panels which can be quickly ‘clicked’ together to form floor, wall, and roof click-rafts in different configurations

Click-leaf’s are assembled into Y-frame pairs and clicked into click-beam’s which together integrate structure, cladding, power/data networks, plumbing, energy, water systems, storage and furniture within the weave of the plywood structure.

The system’s flexibility offers many alternative open ended configurations to enable user/builder to respond to site specific conditions. Construction is generated by an assemblage of click-components which can be tuned on site – engaging user input, imagination, and exploration.